After election loss, Lee Kee-heung offers to resign as national Olympic head and IOC member

After being denied a third term as head of the South Korean Olympic Games, veteran sports administrator Lee Kee-heung has offered to step down as a national Olympic body and as a member of the International Olympic Committee, sources close to Lee said on Friday .

According to the sources, Lee has informed the Korean Sports and Olympic Committee that he will resign before the end of his current term on February 27. However, Lee had not yet filed formal resignation papers as of Thursday evening.

In the election held on Tuesday, Lee finished in second place with 379 votes, while 2004 Olympic table tennis champion Ryu Seung-min won 417 of 1,209 votes.

Lee was elected as an IOC member in 2019 in his capacity as head of its national Olympic Committee. By losing his KSOC position, he will not be able to keep his IOC seat.

Lee, 70, could have chosen to stay on board until the end of his KSOC term, but the sources said he informed IOC President Thomas Bach that he would be resigning his IOC membership early.

This leaves South Korea with one IOC member, International Skating Union President Kim Jae-youl.

Because Lee reached the IOC age limit of 70 earlier this month, he would have lost his IOC seat at the end of this year even if he had won Tuesday's KSOC election. He would have had to remain in his KSOC post if he had applied for renewal of IOC membership after 70 years.

Lee has been president of KSOC since 2016, after years serving in various leadership roles in South Korean sports, including as head of the Korea Swimming Federation.

In the latter part of his term, Lee was at odds with the Sports Ministry, which suspended Lee from service in November 2024 over a series of misconduct allegations.

Days before the election, Lee's order to halt the suspension was rejected by two courts. He plans to take the case to the Supreme Court.

Ryu previously served on the IOC's Athletes Commission, whose members serve eight-year terms but otherwise have the same responsibilities as other IOC members. As head of the KSOC, Ryu could be given the opportunity to run for IOC membership.

At his news conference Thursday, Ryu, whose eight-year IOC career ended last summer, declined to comment on the possibility of returning to the IOC. He did say that his election as KSOC chief should provide continuity for South Korea's international sports diplomacy, thanks to his previous experiences with the IOC. (Yonhap)

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